Senior Software Engineer, R&D

About The Job

Berkshire Grey is a leader in the field of AI and robotics, providing innovative solutions for e-commerce, retail replenishment, package handling, and logistics operations. Our technology automates complex warehouse tasks such as picking, packing, sorting, and trailer unloading.

As part of the Research & Advanced Development group, you will develop new approaches to solving a variety of challenging manipulation problems for real-world robotics systems, allowing them to understand and interact with their environment in unprecedented ways. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of robotics applied to real-world challenges. Your work will span the full range of this robotics stack, from robot drivers to the multi-robot orchestration system running in Berkshire Grey’s in-house robot proving ground.

Responsibilities

Contribute to training and adapting of existing machine learning architectures for robot learning and visual scene understanding

Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of Berkshire Grey’s robot policy learning data collection application

Determine what demonstrations, robot logs, sensor data, annotations, and failure cases are suitable for fine-tuning robot foundation models when applied to new tasks, embodiments, or environments

Stay abreast of the latest advancements in robotics and related fields, evaluating applicability to our challenges

Collaborate with external research partners to find solutions for BG’s problem space

Assist with mentorship of more junior engineers or interns

Quickly prototype solutions, creating demos for stakeholders and visitors

Own solutions from the prototype stage to robust, production-ready features

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s degree in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Science or a closely related field

Experience in software development in robotics or automation roles

Strong development expertise in Python and C++

Experience with modern software engineering tooling and workflows including Git and CI/CD

Experience in working with ROS or ROS2

Experience in designing and implementing software and algorithms for real robots, including troubleshooting of real robot systems

Demonstrated ability to:

Work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

Determine and communicate justification of technical priorities

Rapidly prototype and iterate on solutions to challenging problems

Work independently on a variety of projects while maintaining focus

Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years of relevant software engineering experience in robotics or automation roles

Demonstrated experience with one or multiple of:

Computer vision applied to robotic manipulation problems, such as grasp estimation, object detection/segmentation, or anomaly detection

Motion planning & optimization for single or bimanual manipulation

Imitation learning for manipulation or other real world use cases

Experience with:

Common deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch

Robot simulators (e.g. Isaac Sim, MuJoCo)

Robot learning frameworks (e.g. Orbit / Isaac Labs, OpenAI Gym)

Robotic sensors, such as RGB cameras and depth sensors

Combining model-based and data-driven approaches

Docker, cloud computing, or similar applications

Parallel/distributed systems and asynchronous/concurrent programming

Production robot deployment

Agentic coding tools

Possessing some of these preferred qualifications is great to have but not required and should not discourage applicants from applying.

Travel: Occasional; up to 10%.

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